Writing a Super Hero Story



Writing a Super Hero Story

Engage: Show a short clip of a super hero cartoon. Discuss with students who are super heroes? Brainstorm some super heroes and villains they know from watching movies or cartoons. Add students ideas to chart

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Explore: Read students the story, “Marvel Heroes: The Battle Unfolds.” After reading discuss who were the super heroes, villains and where did the setting take place.

Explain: Students will get to create their own super hero story. Before students create their own superhero story, we are going to examine the story we just read a bit closer to understand how they can create their own. Complete the graphic organizer with the class’ input. Students begin writing their story

Planning- Students complete their Super Hero Story Board

Drafting- Students begin writing their super hero story.

Elaborate: Teacher will present mini-lessons to the class. Students will conference with their peers and teacher to help make their story stronger by revising and editing. Students will conference with themselves. (Teacher will record conferences on student sheet and students will complete peer conference sheet)

Evaluate: Students will publish their work and will complete self-reflection and checklist. Students will be evaluated using rubric.

Class Mini-lessons planned for this unit:

Starting off story with a problem and getting reader’s attention

Lesson: Reread story and ask students what they liked about how they author started off the story. Explain why was it a good attention getter? Send students to their desks to see if they can look at their leads closer to see if they can catch the reader’s attention.

Creating suspense and a fight scene

Lesson: Refer to 5 ways to Write Sizzling Fight Scenes tips. Have student’s complete 5 senses graphic organizer and add to their story some of the senses.

Making your character’s talk/Other Words for “SAID”

Lesson: Read the story, “Yo, Yes,” Discuss with students what they noticed about this story? (The two boys are talking with each other in the whole story). Explain that sometimes, when we write we can make our characters come alive by having them talk. Refer back to the Superhero story and discuss how dialogue helped make the story exciting? Demonstrate how to correctly use quotation marks and commas. (Refer to other words for SAID sheet to allow them to use a variety of words.) Demonstrate how to start off dialogue at the beginning and end of a sentence. Explain the importance of not overusing dialogue because it can get confusing. Students return to their stories and add dialogue.

Adding transitions between events (VCR words)

Lesson: Open the lesson by discussing what are the fast forward, backwards, pause and stop buttons used for? Discuss how sometimes writers use words to fast forward, go backwards or pause on scenes. Introduce the VCR word sheet. Explain to students that these are words that help move the story along and help the reader understand when you are moving from one scene to the next. Re-read a portion of the Super hero story and have students see if they can find some transitional words. Discuss how the transitional word helped the reader understand what was happening. Reread the scene without the transitional word and discuss what the effect is. Give students their own VCR sheet and have them add VCR words to their story.

Adding onomatopoeia

Lesson: Sometimes writers make their stories come alive by adding sound. Have students brainstorm any words that make sounds when you hear them. In groups, students brainstorm words that make the following sounds and record on poster. Display onomatopoeia cards from online resource. Students return to their stories and add onomatopoeia.

Five Ways to Write Sizzling Fight Scenes

1. Immerse us in your scene

a. Engage as many senses as possible, particularly the visceral ones (touch, smell, taste).

b. It is really important to avoid anything that makes your readers wonder what’s happening. It may help to create a rough diagram so that you know what’s happening.

2. Don’t put in too many characters

a. Each additional character dilutes the fight and makes it harder to visualize how it’s all happening at once.

b. I highly recommend capping your fights to 3 people at a time. If you really want more combatants, I’d recommend writing the battle as a series of 2-3 person duels rather than a battle royale with 8+ fighters. This was a problem in Soon I Will Be Invincible..

3. Be creative (duh)

a. How do your characters interact with the scenery? Brainstorm 5-10 items or props that are in the scene and think of a way your hero might use each of them if he got desperate. Using one or two props will really draw us into the scene.

b. Try to imagine an unexpected way for your hero to use his powers.

c. Show your hero improvising. Put a few wrenches in his carefully laid plans. If your super villain really is a genius, surely he would anticipate some of the things your hero will try.

4. Elements that usually add suspense

a. Stealth and desperation.

b. Urgency and/or a ticking clock

c. Strong side-characters. If we really feel for the damsel-in-distress, we’d care a lot more whether the hero is able to rescue her.

d. A suicidal determined hero. If the audience knows that the hero thinks that success is beating the villain—not coming home alive– then we’ll wonder whether the hero will survive. Whether he does or not, there will be more suspense.

5. Be short.

a. Generally, fights should be the climax of action chapters, rather than the bulk of the action chapters. If your fight scene drags on for pages, describing a list of hits the hero and villain are landing on each other, it’s probably going to get pretty tedious.

Super Hero Story Board

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